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California University and Station. — At a recent State farmers' institute held at Berke- 

 ley a resolution was adopted asking the legislature for an appropriation for a farm, 

 and also for a building that shall be adequate to the needs of the agricultural depart- 

 ment, to cost not less than $500,000. 



Iowa College and Station. — W. II. Ogilvie, of Kelso, Scotland, who has recently 

 been appointed editor of the station publications, will also have charge of a course in 

 agricultural journalism in the college. The latter course is established through the 

 liberality of Mr. John Clay, of Chicago, who, realizing the great importance of suit- 

 able training of college students in the field of agricultural journalism, has contributed 

 liberally toward Mr. Oi;ilvie's salary. This is believed to be the first department 

 of agricultural journalism that has been established in this country or elsewhere. 



Kentucky Station. — J. N. Harper has recently returned from a two months' trip 

 to Ireland, where he went on invitation of the Department of Agriculture and 

 Technical Instruction to take charge of experiments in the curing of a twenty-acre 

 crop of tobacco and to give instruction in the cultivation of that crop. The tobacco- 

 growing experiments were conducted by the department on the large estates of Col. 

 Nugent Everard. The only drawback is the climate, which is so damp and cold that 

 the crop must be cured artificially. For this purpose the department constructed a 

 barn on Colonel Everard's estate, divided into eleven compartments, each thoroughly 

 insulated and provided with three ventilators, one at the top and two at the bottom. 

 The temperature of each room can be controlled within one degree and the humid- 

 ity is under absolute control. The barn is one of the finest of its kind in the world. 

 The curing experiments were in every way a success, and the dark or export types 

 of tobacco were of a high grade. The work aroused much enthusiasm, and won for 

 Mr. Harper the high commendation of the officials of the department. 



Oklahoma College and Station. — The station is procuring a small dairy herd of native 

 cows for the purpose of ascertaining their value for milk and butter production. An 

 -eight weeks' course in home dairying will be given during January and February. 

 The short course in general agriculture given heretofore will be continued. A course 

 in stock judging and seed selection will be given from February 7 to 13, 1905. 



Pennsylvania Station. — R. O. Brooks, special assistant in food chemistry, has ter- 

 minated his engagement with the station. At a recent meeting the advisory com- 

 mittee of the station approved a plan presented by the director for an experiment 

 ■upon the necessary protein supply of the dairy herd. The herd is to be divided into 

 two lots, as nearly alike as practicable, on the basis of their records. One of these 

 lots is to be fed a ration computed to supply, in addition to the protein required for 

 the maintenance of the body, an amount approximately equal to that which the cows 

 may be expected to produce in their milk. The other lot will receive a ration made 

 up of the same feeds, but in different proportions, so as to contain about twice as 

 much protein. In addition to the regular herd records of milk production, samples 

 ■of feed and milk will be taken for check determinations of protein. The experiment 

 will be continued through the winter. The committee also authorized a continua- 

 tion of the experiments which have been conducted for the past two years on the 

 influence of shelter upon the food consumption and gains of fattening cattle. 



Rhode Island Station. — A new heating system has been installed in the station 

 brooder house. 

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